Dean R. Koontz - Whispers

Pros: Very nice romance between leads, suspenseful, interesting psychology

Cons: A little farfetched

The Bottom Line: Fantastic novel with something for everyone. Romance, psychosis, action, and great character development make this one sparkle.

Review: Whispers is one of the best novels from Koontz due to its fantastic characterization, interesting psychology and suspense. Koontz often ranges the spectrum from formulaic to profound. In books such as Watchers, a morality tale about genetic...

Pros: Fast-moving, intense mystery

Cons: Sex scenes and violence might turn off some readers

Review: Dean Koontz's novels are, at their worst, formulaic and cliched. At their best, they're brilliant psychological horror novels. "Whispers" is one of the latter.

The plot of the book is fascinating. A Hollywood screenwriter, Hilary...

Pros: Unusual character study.

Cons: More thought and less action than some may like.

Review: Whispers is a bit different from many of the other books that Dean Koontz has written; it's much more a character study than his other books. Unlike novels like Shadow Fires, where you get relatively little insight into the evil...

Pros: early Koontz is to be appreciated

Cons: everyone loves T&A, but there's too much sex for me.

The Bottom Line: Engaging writing by a talented author, and definitely a page turner, but a reader shouldn't feel obligated to finish when the plot is as obvious as it is in "Whispers".

Review: The plot is simple; a famous and beautiful screen-writer (Hilary Thomas) is being tracked as the reincarnated mother of an insane upstate-Californian man who owns a winery (Bruno Frye). It sounds more difficult than it is, and the suspense makes for a...